I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - "London Magazine", March, 1967.
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I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
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What is art but a way of seeing?.
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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
